ferrydust

30 June 2006 Friday

Site-building fdv2

from early April 2005

Still to do:

[x] lighten the lavendar box;
[x] redo the bottom swirly so that it doesn’t look so much like a snake, and perhaps make it shorter this time (not such a long tail).
what else..
[x] figure out a better way to do the ‘expand/contract’.. maybe with graphics..? (got rid of the expand/contract All)
[x] oh, the ferrydust title needs to be done as a graphic (maybe.. i kinda like it in plain garamond..), with a hover graphic behind/underlining…
those are the main things off the top of my head so far… the other pages have not yet been designed.. except site map, a bit..
[x] but have to figure out how to lay out ‘words’ pages..
[x] and the archives. although archives ends up being based largely on the plugin formats, with some customization afterward. some of what i’ve designed isn’t possible yet because plugins aren’t available to do some of these things.
[x] you know what? maybe make that lavendar box into gold/sand… that might work out better. give it a try anyway.
[x] oh, and figure logo. but not right now. right now is sleep time. ..ended up with something. maybe elaborate at later date.
[x] have a —30— article end symbol(?). nope.
[ ] make bottom vine not so stubby/chubby. ..blah. maybe later
[ ] have styleswitcher to turn off all images (but not all styling)
[x] use switchcontent script to be able to turn on and off the boxcol… (will have to enclose box1,box2,box3,boxcol….) have that link accessible in the rightcol. — didn’t quite work… that is, it works fine, but the rest of the content does not move with it… why is that?
[x] fix bottom of boxcol to match the rest; right now it’s a different shade of lavendar/violet.
[x] add a ‘mood/inspiration’ (via custom field) for each article.. “this article was written in a somber mood; in a fit of frustration; while clipping my toenails; while i should have been sleeping ... etc… have it output only if a mood was inputted. (mdn_if_custom)
[x] pictures section? or not? (will work more on this later.
[ ] ‘elsewhere’ section (as in sitemap) should mirroredly go into ‘links’ and ‘about me’
[ ] offer a print/plainview of the article ?
[ ] figure a backup font to italicized garamond; a mac equivalent
[x] add a div in boxcol1 (where boxbottom.gif is) and set that up with padding and margin such that a buffer of wordwrap is made around the existing swirly graphic… and then have the whole #content have a larger column (not dictated strictly by that bottom swirly). leave as is
[x] need a favicon and avatar (simple favicon will have to do.)
[x] use switchcontent script for playlists, like so: http://www.jah.clara.net/mixtape.html.. also use for archives if possible
[x] install ie7
[x] adjust for working in IE (had to destroy comments layout)
[x] three different types of rss_archive… only rss_bycatsis working… answer: needed to specify “section” attribute
[ ] why is the category slates (using rss_suparchivebycat) printing double entries list? answer: ‘form’ attribute is broken in recent revisions of RC3.. will likely have to wait for 1.0
[ ] integrate technorati cosmos ‘trackback’ plugin ?
[x] format the archives
[x] monthly archives is trying to test in the boxcol
[x] category list pages are not working properly
[x] need to edit #welcome (on the sitemap)
[ ] get rss_posted to have functionality of asy_showdate (only print date if different from previous article)
[ ] weird shifting occurs happens when page goes long… i have no clue where to begin fixing that. it’s not tragedy, but it’s weird and incorrect. you can see it if you compare a short page and a long one..
[x] lavendar box top and bottom images do not show up at all in Safari ... supposedly they do now. yay! ? :)
[ ] glx_if (comments..) is not entirely working … sposed to show “write a comment” in the pagenav, but doesn’t. :-/
[x] validate fdv2 xhtml
[x] set up comments from front page.
[x] no pagination on front page
[x] upgrade to latest rc3
[x] implement the custom fields
[x] recent entries list.. get rid of the
between title and :: date
[x] built in txp:custom-fields and related conditionals do not work yet. keeping with rei_show_custom and mdn_if_custom
[x] change option to disallow textile for links, because that options it pretty thoroughly messed at the moment.
[x] search is not working 04/27 ..fixed 04/30
[x] getting double/repeating permlinks again 05/28 … solved! 5/5/5:“bluearc in forum”:http://forum.textpattern.com/viewtopic.php?pid=52623#p52623 revealed that this was caused by zem_link, and offered solution:

A quick fix is to comment out line 34.
// if ($url_mode==1) $url = $url . (empty($rs["url_title"]) ? stripSpace($rs["Title"]) : $rs["url_title"]);

..more solutions now
[ ] ...it’s not just zem_link that has this problem… chh_article_custom appears to also be working in ‘old permalink mode’, and produces the same double-title permalink problems :-/
[x] tcm_if broke. dunno why. 04/28
[x] dates are totally whacked ..this was fault of jad_oldposted.. apparently not working.
[ ] find out what’s so significantly slowing down page. (no surprise) conditionals? plugins? is there an error reporting i can do to see how long things take to load/go through?
[x] closed almost all comments
[x] working on archives pages 04/29
[x] category pages are not working (might be because of the rewrite command in .htaccess.. will worry about this after launch… other fish to fry right now newayz) .fixed. required glx_if_category_list to counter the others
[ ] implement advanced search
[x] figure how to do the words pages.. split out quotes, ridiculi, lyrics ..all good!
[x] check site in firefox and IE (been only checking in Opera) ..mostly okay.. a messed in IE when open comment form. :-/
[x] create playlists pages
[ ] fix sitemap properly
[ ] create ‘siteography’ section at a later date
[x] gravatars aren’t working
[x] comment date/times aren’t working
Yay!!! updated low_discuss solved comment time/gravatar problems
[x] link categories (in lavendar box) are not working on /links section :: /links (mem_glinklist) ..not reflecting categories. might be the plugin, but may well not be. 2005-05-14~ thoroughly working now, thanks to this tip by danielk :

since mem_glinklist uses ?lc for category links instead of ?c, the links being generated by stw_category_tree wont work. i changed the 2 references in the code for of mem_glinklist, from ‘lc’ to ‘c’, and have the links accessible through section ‘links’.

[x] working on minimizing conditionals .. think i’ve just about eliminated all i can.. split out into a few more pages.. might have to split out into more forms.
[ ] add contact form
[x] low_discuss has appeared to drop low_discuss form… ..will be fixed in next update of the plugin .. then can also put back the live preview. 5/5/5 upgraded to low_discuss 0.5, commented out one line:

// $out = n.'<div id="'.gTxt('comment').'">'.$AnnotateInvite.'</div>'.n;

[ ] all date-related plugins are (consistently 4 hours?) ahead.. it’s quite badness… clearly not the plugins’ fault, since ob1_modified, rss_posted, rss_suparchive, jad_oldposted, etc. surely would not all stop working at the same time…. unless one of them is steering the rest of course? is that possible?
[ ] css not showing on pages with long-article names. strange error
[ ] apparently frontend [edit] links were visible to others. they’re not supposed to be! that should be fixed now…. (thanks Rob)
[ ] compact the textbox: labels in boxes
[x] the footer vine is quite misbehaving. 2005/05/18~ fixed; added #one div because hooking it on #wall was ignoring the footer as content.
[x] when ‘briefs’ articles are on override form on frontpage, whole page is broken. find problem and fix it. solved by the following:
[x] 5/5/5: eliminated section ‘briefs’... am only using override form now, instead.
[x] livesearch implemented :) rob is so cool.
[ ] not a new problem, but it is a problem: custom fields do not take any html. messes everything up.
[x] broke rss_suparchive_bycat somehow… thought it was the references to ‘briefs’ section that i recently deleted… but fixing that doesn’t seem to have solved it. this happened before.. i forget how it was fixed…
..okay, what the heck. i turned off a few plugins, turned them back on… and now it works. ... i think that’s what happened last time too. absurd. i’m glad it’s working again though!
[ ] comment form is thoroughly messed up in IE.
[ ] why is html stripped from excerpts? 2005may20~ it seems it is textile that is being stripped..not html… which is almost as disturbing. haven’t heard more on the progress of this yet..
[x] upgraded from RC3 rev336 to rev360 — friday 13 may 2005
[x] iching (Fêng) symbol added for Fun Shui ~2005-05-14
[x] old ferrydust is up for posterity. ~2005-05-15
[x] zem_link was broke for a little bit due to some good edits
[ ] must work on page load times. i know a few of the culprits, but haven’t figured substitutes yet.
[x] rss_live_archive is live
[x] live preview had apparently not been working in firefox. thank you James for pointing it out, and for suggesting the solution was a misassigned id.. don’t know why it had been working so happily in Opera.
[x] upgraded to rev392
[x] to control comment form output, must always do a small hack, ala Chris McLeod’s instructions:

Find the following code in publish.php, at around line 387 — it’s at the end of the doArticle() function. ...

if (($Annotate or $com_count) && !$preview) { if($use_comments) { $article .= discuss($ID); } }

comment it all out (put // in front of each line)

[ ] apparently the preview button is hidden in safari? hm? check this out… ~07-24-2005
[x] fixed comment form display in IE (textarea was overlapping the other fields) ~18august2005
[x] upgraded to Textpattern 4.0, rev795 ~14august2005
[x] fixed ‘never display email’ option in low_discuss plugin, thanks to instructions by doggiez

edit plugin code and change:
if ($email && !$web && !$txpac['never_display_email'])
to:
if ($email && !$web && !$never_display_email)

~18august2005

mid-May 2006 html and css loss… have to rebuild… pending items:
[ ] Calendar (whole section/page) is exploded all over the place when html and css broke need to restore
[ ] restore comments form to double column
[x] pre-existing problem: Recent Playlist cannot show artists/authors of songs. (replaced with last.fm code) ~June 1, 2006
[x] big unhappiness: vinetoe graphic is not hitting the bottom on single article pages, as it does on the other pages, and as it used to. don’t see what’s different about the single article pages that it’s insisting upon this, but I’m displeased. June 1, 2006~ SOLVED! was a superfluous </div> on the ‘words’ template.
[x] holy @$&*! totally broken in IE! I would’ve never known. Argh. was annoying enough fixing it the first time! ~May 25, 2006 (not sure when this was fixed)
[x] playlist section is basically restored now, I think. ~June 1, 2006
June 30, 2006~
[x] had entirely forgotten about the Live Archive page but it is now fixed (css). Calendar pages are still broke at the moment.
[x] found that I never fixed the links and id numbers for picture references from old ferrydust version… so spent a bit of time on that yesterday and synched it all up. Entries that should have showed pictures but weren’t, now do.
October 30, 2006~
[x] made column fixes (sizes and margines) to accommodate dumb IE7. Ferrydust does not like IE, but it does work..
[x] not sure when this happened… maybe 4.0.4.. but rss_suparchive_by_cat is showing only category headers..which makes for a not-so happy archive. dunno. I don’t think it’s the plugin’s fault, cuz working nicely in trv2. but in trv2, am using forms, but not in ferrydust. maybe …
[ ] rework rss_suparchive_by_cat to use forms (like trv2)
[x] streamlined the site a lil bit. should make some difference on load times, but I’m not sure. site could use a WHOLE lot more streamlining….. or starting from scratch. no time to do that yet, though.
November 2, 2007~
[ ] rewrite ferrydust from scratch. implement dynamic width.
[ ] instead of background color (lavendar, rounded corners) for subheaders (on main page), use vines as sub-underline/subframe.